Know thyself first and best.

The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune NewsService) | September 13, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: Mark Bowden

There's been vindication, of a sort, for early 20th-century astronomer Percival Lowell.

The Boston Brahman who built the famous observatory named after himself in Flagstaff, Ariz., and who recognized (before this age of orbiting telescopes) the advantage of viewing the heavens where the air was thin and dry, has gone down in history as a fool.

His story is told in detail in John Noble Wilford's 1990 book, "Mars Beckons." Lowell saw, or thought he saw, an elaborate network of canals on the surface of Mars. He wasn't the first to ...

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